Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-31

One who had come there, she said, was richly
| dressed. She said she had a good house; she was
| the mistress of the establishment. She said she
was weary, tired OF the life she had been leading
when she read in The STAR of the Hope and Help
Mission she said to herself: s"That is for me-" She
came to the rooms and told her story. They took
her by the hand, talked with her, knelt with her
| and prayed with her. She had been educated at a
! high school in neighboring city. She had, she
said once taught a sunday school class and she
| told them how large her class had been. She had
! had a drunken husband. She expressed some
doubt as 10 whether she would be strUrg enough
| TO keep from her old life. She had gone away and
had written Mrs La Fetra a letter. in which sGe
said that the great burden she had borne seemed
to be lifted from her. She had incIOsed i'm this letter
a poem, which Mrs. La Fetra read. It began:
"Heart-sick. homeless. weak and weary,
On the edge of doom she stands;
Fighting back the willy telnpter
With her trembling womans hands.
On her lips moan of pleading,
In her eyes look OF pain;
Men and women. men and women
Shall her cry go up vain:"
MISS wIILARD's ADDRESS.
Miss Willard spoke for over an hour She Is a
little woman. with an erect and graceful figure.
Her light brown hair is parted and brushed back
over her wide forehead in an old-fashiOned way.
and her SDectacleS enhanced the kindly look of her
face Her voice is expressive and penetrating and
her dction clear and direct. AS she spoke her
hearers often applauded her sentiments, and Occa-
sionally some Of the more tender-hearted were
moved TO tears by some touching bit OF deScr1p-
ton. She told something OF her own life how as
SeparateneSS from the world, where she learned
little OF the worlds heartacheS. When she went
away TO a womanS college she found there young
woman who was to remain but short time, and
whom all the girls Stunned because she was from
the class that women now sought to help. IL came
about that she was thrown into the same room
with this girl. Some one whispered TO her. 'That
is the GIRL and she drew away her in scorn.
Then she thought that was righteousness. Now,
in serene middle age after the experiences OF life,
she knew that was not righteousness She had
never dreamed that she would ever speak for this
class OF women. Miss Willard spoke OF the
HUsH-A-BY POLICY,
which had prevailed so long, which would have
the good and true women live without knowledge
OF these things. She said a moral cyclone had
swept year ago across the seas from England,
and the moral atmosphere had been cleared. Miss
Willard spoke against laws and social customs
that put the penalty and the oblOuuy upon the
weaker partner in q dual sin. She described the
movement begun in England by Mrs. Josephine
Butler. whom she styled the prophecies OF the
White Cross movement. She described the reforms
which had resulted in English laws. and said that
| in England to-day women We're better protected
than in any other land. She described what Editor
stead, OF the Pal san Gazette, the apostle or the
movement, had done, and paid him glowing trlb-
ute. Publicity, she said, was needed to arouse
| the nation. Wicked club men had declared that
the Pail Nall Gazette printed matters which it
was not proper should be read in the home and
even Sir Charles Dixie said he would not have the
| paper left at his door. She read
THE WHITE CROSS PLEDGE
OF purity in word and deed, which is being circu-
| lated for signatures among boys and men, This
| pledge reads: promise by the help OF God: 1 To
treat all women with respect and endeavor to pro
| tect them from wrong and degradation; =, to en-
deavor 10 put down all indecent language and
coarse jests; 3. TO maintain the law of purity as
| equally binding upon men and women; 4, to en-
deaver TO spread these principles among my CON-
panions and to try and help my younger brothers;
D, to use every possible means to fulfill the CON-
| mand, keep thySeif pure
This she said, was the work OF prevention II
would raise up new chivalry. She recited what
1 was being done in the DptitiOnS
from Congress and state legislatures proper legiS-
lation for the protection OF young girls and women.
| In this connection she spoke OF the labor move
| ment and expressed deep sympathy with IL. For
whatever is DONE she said, to lift up the working
| ways step below their husbands. In Philadel-
| phla week ago she went with Mrs. Hannah
Whitall smith 10 see Terence V. Powdsrly. He re-
! ceiyed them kindly, and when she showed him the
petition he read IL and said, "Wait, Will ask nv
brothers." Then he left the room and took it be-
fore his council When he returned he said: s.Send
me 81, 600 copies OF this petition and win send
them ninetytwo district assemblies for circula-
1 ton and signatures"
| woMANs DUTY.
| Miss Willard spoke In some scorn OF women who
| will greet with smiles the avenue or receive
| with cordially in their drawing room men whom
they know are not leading pure lives. She looked
| forward TO the time when young woman when a
/ sutton sought her hand should require him to
bring her purity for purity and total abstinence
! for total abstinence. To say You cannot have
| your wine cup and have me: you cannot visit
/ COSsacis or Russian peasants, who upon return.
! ing from wal, their outrages upon women having
their wives should be like Ca5ar,s wife. above re-
prOach. Ii The wife was found TO have been
unfaithful she was required TO kneel and be
whipped upon her bare back. When a woman re-
| ceived in her parlor and greeted with a smile
] the man she knew led an impure life her
| smile was only another expression OF the
| same subserviency that made the COssock woman
kneel beneath the lash. Miss Willard approved
/ warmly industrial education OF young women.
OF n wi hrnnH yVfn rt,,.r
| ponS In their hands they could then demand.
when they were asked TO make home, that the
altar OF that home should he conSecrated to purity
She believed that before the Goth century opened
women would be equal with men in the government
and there would be fairer laws. She paid tribute
| to the chivalry OF American men, who she believed
| would come TO the support OF this movement In
closing Miss Willard appealed tenderiy. in words
| OF Hoods Bridge OF Sighs,"
| Take up tenderly,
| Lift her with care
and said that there was new version Of the
beautiful poem. They proposed to take them uI
| tenderiy but not TO wait until they were dead
They Proposed 10 lift them while they were alive
AT the close OF the meeting over 800 was collected
for the Hope and Help mission, slOO OF which was
| given by MIS- Senator stanford.
| The Navy Yard Fire.
THE ROOF OF THE ORDNANCE SHOP BURNED WIFE
SLIGHT LOSS.
The large ordnance shop in the navy yard at thu
corner OF sumner and Dent streets, was discovered
| 10 De on nre SATURDAY afternoon few minutes
| after O'Clock. The flames were soon bursting
from several places I'm the roof but with the aid OF
the hand engine in the yard and the efforts OF the
city flremen the fire was soon put out. The build
ing was two stories In height and the first fool
was the machinery necessary for the construction
| OF The new guns for the cruisers. On the fioOI
above We're the Offices OF the ordnance officers and
there were also all the patterns OF guns. gun car
! rlageS etc. stored away from Admiral Dahlgren's
tifne TO the present. The workmen, by great effort
saved all the ordnance records, plans etc., or the
wOrk connected with the ordnance. The ire was
! DeneVed 10 have originated from the spontaneous
combustion OF big pile OF paper stored away In 8
! corner on the second floor. The roof was left 8
| the recovery OF all the patterns OF the new stee
guns untouched by the fire. Hundreds OF pattern:
were burned up, but their loss will not be felt
| they are mostly OF designs long ago condemned
| The machinery on the first floor was drenchet
with water. The nve-inch guns under way
thought 10 be injured by the intense heat OF thu
| nalnes. were found TO be unframed.
| The KNIGHTS OF HoNOR.-The Grand LOdgt
| Knights OF Honor District OF Columbia, Saturday
| night elected officers as follows: Grand dictator
| j. b. Randolph grand vice dictator, d. C.. MOrri
son; grand assistant dictator, Philip Inch; gran(
reporter, " c. Martini grand treasurer, j. s. BO,
| H. Particle; grand guardian, W. E. Thompson
grand sentinel, W. +. Allen; grand trustees, +.
| Storm, W. p. Allan and j. b. Thompson; repre-
| sentative TO Supreme Lodge, John Z. Herrill alter
| nate representative, +. Z. Storm; state medica
/ examiner, z. I. Sewers.
| ST. MATHEWS CHURCH DEBr-At the mornins
service at ST. Matthew'S church yetterday Or
| Chappelle announced to the congregation thai
during his nye years passionate the debt OF TN,